Pól Ó Lorcáin
Paul Larkin

Chroniclers are privileged to enter where they
list, to come and go through keyholes, to ride
upon the wind, to overcome in their soarings up
and down, all obstacles of distance, time and
place.
Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge,
Chapter The Ninth

The Metropolitan Police must hand over its Irish hacking evidence to the Irish authorities.

(A small number of Cic Saor readers have asked me why I keep “banging on” about News International’s hacking exploits in Ireland. I hope that this blog will successfully explain why.)

Alex Marunchak arrested by the Met’s Operation Kalmyk in October 2012

In the picture above, Cic Saor readers can behold the face of Alex Marunchak. Guardian journalist Nick Davies and English Labour MP Tom Watson have comprehensively detailed the links once enjoyed by Marunchak and his fellow News Int. executive (and Ukranian compatriot) Greg Miskiw to the upper echelons of UK police and secret services. Both Davies and Watson have also effectively highlighted the extremely questionable relationship between Marunchak and the corrupt private detective Jonathan Rees who once ran a detective agency called Southern Investigations. Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....

Media airbrushing of the FRU’s Dirty War in Fermanagh bodes One Hundred Years of Solitude

Amnesia is upon us

Newly established fake Butcher’s shop Belcoo, Fermanagh

The seemingly permanently embedded Western media corps likes to scoff at countries like North Korea or even modern day China as places where news stories are tightly controlled and propaganda fabrications are regularly staged via a compliant, kowtowing media. Yet if citizens step back from this, dare I call it, “propaganda” and look at the picture in the round, the G8 Circus and its attendant media reporting resembles North Korea and Stalinist Russia far more than our gallant press band cares to examine or admit. Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....

Press and Media Release regarding News International Activities in Ireland

Following the start of court proceedings in London against former senior executives in Rupert Murdoch’s News International corporation on hacking charges, one of Ireland’s leading investigative journalists has called for an investigation into the actions of News International’s Ireland operations. Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....

Danny Morrison’s "Rudi - In the shadow of Knulp" - A Review

Fellow writer Danny Morrison

In the early 2000s several journalists tried to convince me that Danny Morrison, Sinn Féin’s former director of publicity, was in fact the infamous – cue drumroll and da da da daaah music - Stakeknife.

Stakeknife was supposed to have been the British spy at the heart of the IRA – with the back story that Mr Knife guided one of the most successful guerilla movements that has ever existed into a dead end of pacification and normalisation. Danny Morrison, in fact the whole of the "Adams clique" in Belfast, was accused of effectively (and secretly) working towards a ceasefire situation agreed with section of the British establishment whilst the republican movement as a whole was out risking its collective neck for the cause. Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....

Sophistry and evasion were already well worn tactics in the days of ancient Greece where the key rules of rhetoric and argumentation were first developed – in the Western part of the world at least. Aristotle defined sophistry as “wisdom in appearance only”. Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....